These days, the thought of media scrutiny after the event scares a lot of frontline people more than the potential event itself.
And unfortunately that includes the police who are immediately hounded by the media if they chase a drunken driver and he runs a red light killing someone in the process. There is media outrage about a drunk going through a red light at 150 km/hour - but police brutality in chasing a poor innocent drunk who inadvertently killed a couple of pedestrians, is a real headline scoop for a cub reporter
